Aeon418
This is another area where that grade list is strange. In parts it looks like Crowley has done some retrospective re-dating. Maybe the passage of time and hindsight led him to reconsider some events and their significance. Crowley's original claim to Major Adeptship was in 1900, during the time he spent in Mexico immediately after the Golden Dawn debacle.In other words, it was a self-bestowed grade that was later acknowledged by a higher ranking GD member. Right?
Whether it was 1900 or 1904, confirmation of Crowley's attainments took place when he hooked up once again with his one time mentor and Golden Dawn superior, George Cecil Jones.
LIBER CAUSÆ said:19. Returning to England, he laid his achievements humbly at the feet of a certain adept D.D.S., who welcomed him brotherly and admitted his title to the grade which he had so hardly won.